He's eaten spicy foods before! He's eaten things sane people shouldn't eat! In part because when you're with a unit and that's what there is to eat, then that's what you eat. In part because he is Jake and he will eat damn near anything because of a metabolism that is only slightly faster than how he talks.

This though... this is different if the way he's sweat, rivulets pouring down his face and along his chest and abs is any indication. Different in how flushed his skin is, and how he keeps shifting from one foot to the other because his skin feels hot and tight.

And not because of Cougar looking him over. Surely that's just making sure there's no wounds or marks that caused his reaction. Yep, that's it.

Then those words and he gasps, staring at Cougar in disbelief. "Hey! Now that's just mean."

And probably true.

"Clothes later! Now water."

And he should probably have drunken it, but then he has nearly drowned himself. He moves quickly to hop into the water, despite the pain of rocks on his socked feet.

He groans as it swirls up around his ankles, dropping to his knees and sinking into it.